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PlanetScale is a serverless, MySQL-compatible database platform powered by Vitess. PlanetScale handles database scaling while also providing you with the tools to increase your development velocity, such as branching, non-blocking schema changes, automatic backups, built-in connection pooling, as well as a helpful interface and CLI. Datadog’s new integration gives you deep visibility into your PlanetScale databases, so you can optimize your usage and costs.

Writing tests in any programming language can be difficult, but it does not have to be. In this tutorial, I will show you how you can easily write and run tests using Flask and Pytest. As a bonus, we will also integrate a CI/CD pipeline to run tests on a Flask app using CircleCI. Be sure to check out our other Flask tutorials to learn about application logging, authentication decorators, and automating Flask deployments.

Success is what every business envisions. Yet, this journey definitely isn’t linear or straightforward. As a company looking for success, you probably focus on marketing your product and closing as many sales as possible. But what do you do after that? Does your journey end there? Engaging with customers does not end with the sale. Assuring customers benefit from your product and collaborating with them to provide the greatest possible service is a long-term commitment.

Movie Reviews usually play a big role in whether audiences who haven’t watched the movie yet would watch it. Movie reviews are a reflection of the movie being interpreted. But it’s too hard to track the value of those interpretations unless there is some analytical method in doing so.

In this article, we look at the core concepts of SAP digital transformation, its role in enhanced decision making, and how hyperautomation could be the secret to creating a competitive advantage for your organization. Once seen as a costly legacy system for many organizations, SAP is no longer the ‘unwieldly’ application it once was.

Today, there is a need for every business to be digital, and technology as you know it lies at the heart of every business. Determining technology’s role in enabling and driving business success has always been a top priority for IT leaders. But these days, IT leaders are also faced with the added pressure of adjusting to the recent economic and societal changes, namely, remote work and employee mobility, to drive viable business results.

Linux Active Directory integration is one of the most popular and requested topics from both the community and our clients. On May 17 we delivered a webinar on the new AD integration features introduced with 22.04 (now available on demand) and following that we received an overwhelming number of questions. In this blog post we would like to address directly the most frequent ones

Welcome to Part II of this three-part mini-series on embedded Linux development on Ubuntu. In Part I, we set the stage for the remainder of the series and gave an overview of snaps, the packaging format at the heart of embedded devices running Ubuntu. Snaps are a secure, confined, dependency-free, cross-platform Linux packaging format. Software publishers often want to manage their application components using containers.

Celery worker is a simple, flexible, and reliable distributed system to process vast amounts of messages while providing operations with the tools required to maintain such a system. In this tutorial, we will learn how to implement Celery with Flask and Redis. Before we deep dive into the tutorial, let’s have a brief overview of Celery workers.

The article Healthchecks.io Hosting Setup, 2022 Edition was recently on Hacker News. I was answering questions in the comments section. Here’s a recap of some of the questions and my answers. I’ve edited some of the questions for clarity.